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Ernest Jones IV: "I Love Each And Every Guy In That Locker Room" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I know how much that you could hear, but just
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  Speaker 1: that's what it's all about. How a teammate speak about
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  Speaker 1: you that way. For me, that's what it's all about. Man.
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  Speaker 1: These you know, these stats. You know, once football is
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  Speaker 1: over with, you know, not too many people are gonna
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  Speaker 1: remember the football player. Man. I want everybody to remember
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  Speaker 1: the person. I want everybody to know. Man. I I
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  Speaker 1: love each and every guy that's in that locker room.
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  Speaker 1: I'll put it, put my life on the line for him,
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  Speaker 1: and that that's no exaggeration. So that meant everything to me. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'll take that with me forever. Your coach that you
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  Speaker 1: haven't talked to the team for the agents, you know,
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  Speaker 1: this video to you? What you talking about you? Man?
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  Speaker 1: I you know I was telling him it's it's been
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  Speaker 1: rough for me. Man, it's been tough. And the the
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  Speaker 1: release that I get is, you know, being around these
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  Speaker 1: guys and playing football. But you know, I I told
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  Speaker 1: the guys that I feel like I'd been missing something.
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  Speaker 1: I wear this cross around my neck, but I haven't
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  Speaker 1: really you know, been living like it. So for me,
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  Speaker 1: I think I you know, I took this time this
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  Speaker 1: week and and just you know, gave my life back
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  Speaker 1: to my Lord and Jesus Saviors. Jesus Christ got back
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  Speaker 1: on my knees, started praying, and you know what he
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  Speaker 1: did for me out there on the football is you
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  Speaker 1: know it comes from that. But I think the biggest
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  Speaker 1: thing for me is like I got I got that
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  Speaker 1: piece that I was missing, and it's gonna help me.
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  Speaker 1: The the interception to disturble. What did you see on
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  Speaker 1: that play? There? You see DeMarcus kind of getting get
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  Speaker 1: him there. Yeah, I've seen the Marcus holding. I mean like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, getting ready to bring him to the ground.
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  Speaker 1: And when you catch these interceptions, everything kind of slows down.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm thinking, there's no way he's about to throw this,
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  Speaker 1: and he let it go and then I catch it
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  Speaker 1: and then I'm like there's nobody in front of me,
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  Speaker 1: so I need it started running. I look up at
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  Speaker 1: the video board and I'm like, dang, somebody's catching me.
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  Speaker 1: It was it was Reek. Reek was just trying to
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  Speaker 1: beat me to the end zone. But that was my
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  Speaker 1: first ever defensive touchdown. It's been a while since I've
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  Speaker 1: seen the end zone, so it was great. I've got
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  Speaker 1: to ask you if you could tell how fast Rec's
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  Speaker 1: moving there. I could tell. It was like the the
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  Speaker 1: the video board was picking him up in like pixels,
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  Speaker 1: like he'd get closer each time that I'd see him.
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  Speaker 1: So you ran a hundred and ten yards on that
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  Speaker 1: play with with with everything that you had to do.
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  Speaker 1: Were you tired at the end of that or oh
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  Speaker 1: I was so tired. I was extremely tired. Luckily the
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  Speaker 1: next drive I think it was a little short one,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, it was. It's worth it. Uh, you're currently
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  Speaker 1: uh second the league in interceptions. Did you have that
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  Speaker 1: on your big over car before the season? I did?
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  Speaker 1: Oh you did, I honestly did. Okay, Uh, the goal
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  Speaker 1: was six, it was t w W. The goal was
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  Speaker 1: like ten turner was in general, So whether that be however,
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  Speaker 1: it come out just ten of 'em. So we not
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  Speaker 1: there yet. We got a couple more to go, so
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  Speaker 1: we'll see. You said, you have you got that piece
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  Speaker 1: back that you were just what's the piece Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: my lord? Yep, right, that's something a couple percent one point?
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  Speaker 1: Is it? For you? Set the example, not just talk
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  Speaker 1: about it, and to set the example as a leader
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  Speaker 1: on this team. I mean that's everything for me, Like
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  Speaker 1: like I said, like this football stuff. It's cool man.
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  Speaker 1: Uh way I was raised and the way I was
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  Speaker 1: brought up. Man, the person matters. That's what I'm teaching
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  Speaker 1: my son. And at the end of the day when
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  Speaker 1: we leave this earth, man, how what type of person
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  Speaker 1: were you? Can people count on you? Can people trust you?
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  Speaker 1: And did you you know, stand by your word? And
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  Speaker 1: that's what I lean on. Didn't get is getting a
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  Speaker 1: shout out of big deal for you guys as a
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  Speaker 1: defense today. You know, I think we've been in this
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  Speaker 1: situation and we've let team scored seven or score three.
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  Speaker 1: So for us to finally close out a game when
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  Speaker 1: starters came out, no drop off, people are able to
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  Speaker 1: get stops and that that that was big for our defense.
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  Speaker 1: Well was it about this week? The American you were better?
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  Speaker 1: Happened with it? Like I said, I just I think
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  Speaker 1: I was just I'm always wanting to try to get better,
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  Speaker 1: try to do something to get better. And I felt
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  Speaker 1: like it was the conviction I just miss I was
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  Speaker 1: missing it and I and I wanted to live, you know,
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  Speaker 1: live and be the person that I am, that who
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  Speaker 1: he put me on this earth to be. Oh, it
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  Speaker 1: was great. It was running pretty fast. Uh yeah, Nah,
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  Speaker 1: but it's feel good. I'm always decided to get back
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  Speaker 1: out there with my guys. Didn't know this was gonna happen,
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  Speaker 1: but it it was great when it was like back
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  Speaker 1: the year, it like us team essentially it did your
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  Speaker 1: guys slade. And I mean, what did it feel like
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  Speaker 1: just to I don't get a little word bet with
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  Speaker 1: most of the on the go maybe in yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean it it felt good for us right now. Any
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  Speaker 1: win whoever sh jumps up on that that that schedule,
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  Speaker 1: who we're looking for that win, but definitely good, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to get this win. And and for me it's like defensively,
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  Speaker 1: Sam just came from there. You know you you want
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  Speaker 1: your guys to win those games, and I wanted my
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  Speaker 1: new win. So you here living in the death zone
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  Speaker 1: most I mean, how do you explain that? How do
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  Speaker 1: I explain it? It's kind of you know, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: tough to explain what I what I think about living
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  Speaker 1: in the death zone is there's no tomorrow, there's no
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  Speaker 1: second chance. Like we we're in the death zone now,
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  Speaker 1: there's six games left. The NFC's jumping is popping, great
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  Speaker 1: teams all around. You gotta win these games. So it's
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  Speaker 1: speaking of NFC, what's popping with you guys have to
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  Speaker 1: control of your own destiny now with the RAMS solutions,
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  Speaker 1: Cause I don't mean anything too I think, I think
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  Speaker 1: for us, it's just it's day by day, this team,
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  Speaker 1: the way we're wired right now, it's like we just
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  Speaker 1: wanna who's who, Whoever's next, Like let's prepare for those
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  Speaker 1: and Sunday when that comes around, we we just go
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  Speaker 1: out there and just try to, you know, get the
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  Speaker 1: job done. Really, Thank Bright, thank you us, right,